FOR PRESS: P.M.NO. 91/1965 FURTHER DROUGHT RELIEF FOR NEW SOUTH WALES STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER, SIR ROBERT MENZIES
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FOR PRESS: P. M. No. 91/ 1965
FURTHER DROUGHT RELIEF FOR NEVI SOUTH WALES
Statement by the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies
The Premier of New South Wales, Mr. Askin
informed me yesterday that because of the failure of the
harvest in the northern areas of the State, it was urgently
necessary to transport wheat to those areas for use in the
manufacture of stock feed.
I sent Mr. Askin a telegram today to let
him know that the cost to his Government of freighting
this wheat will be accepted by the Commonwealth Government
as a drought relief measure for the purposes of the general
assistance grant to be made by the Commonwealth ' to New South
Wales to support the State's budgetary position.
CANBERRA, 18th November, 1965
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